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today we're going to be unboxing the second major product launch from Nick seus this is their fusion XS which is an update to their original network media player and this one is an HD network media player well okay actually hold on the last one was HD to this one watches movies search the web and supports full HD 1080p so out of those three things the most important differentiating factor is that this one has a web browser not only does it have a web browser but it is also featuring android 2.2 froyo so yes it has support for any particular Android app you could want I believe it comes pre-loaded with Facebook YouTube a number of other apps and you have the flexibility to go ahead and install other apps that you should so desire so to go along with the web browser you can install other apps what else do we have to does it have to say for itself it features the Marvel Armada 1000 chipset so it has a much more powerful chipset than the original mix cious media player and running okay the updated OS we've kind of covered that already there is an optional Wi-Fi adapter that you can get for it and Android OS provides users with an open platform supporting apps gains an abundant amount of file formats oh yes Nick seus is allowing basically in essence allowing their device to be completely hacked so to speak so you can develop open source apps or you can download open source apps for your media player and enjoy whatever it is that they do so here we are for the processor we've got a 900 megahertz Marvel process or we've got 512 megs of ram with 1 Giga flash on board this we've covered already video output is hdmi 1.3 so no we're not going to have 3d output but I suspect most people are streaming 3d over their networks just yet anyway audio output is via HDMI you can also do stereo audio output you've got wired ten hundred Ethernet and why don't we go ahead and get this baby opened up inside the box we find a fairly simple fairly eco-friendly package so we've got a little bit of foam here but other than that they've gone with the cardboard approach oh it's very small this is actually one of the smaller network media players that I've seen what that does tell me right away though is that it does not support an internal hard drive but I do know that it supports an external hard drive so if you want to plug in a hard drive via USB that is an option for you this is one of the more robust looking remotes that I've seen on one of these network media player boxes although the price is a little bit higher than some of its competitors comes with a couple triple-a batteries and we've got our forward and back or up and down this is most of our navigation we've got our confirm button we've got all of our numbers that we could want and pretty much all the basics seem to be here much about actually kind of slick this looks like a breakout cable yep so the breakout from your standard headphone jack e looking cable to kompis it just in case you have an older TV you want to use it with just come with a network cable and finally it comes with a power adapter which looks a little something like this there you go in terms of documentation we've got our warranty information which probably a year would be my guess oh yeah two year warranty it's a two year warranty on the power supply as well that's actually not bad at all normally I would expect from a smaller company like Nick seus them to have like a sort of a one-year bare-bones warranty but they're going the sort of back it up and yes support the product for a longer term route interesting so here's a quick set-up guide which should be fairly straightforward if you've ever hooked up a network media player before just want to make sure that you have your your network shares and you're accessing them using a network media player pretty self-explanatory I think let's have a look at the unit itself so it's fairly slick actually it's got kind of a curved shape to the front I'll let you see that from the side so you can get a better idea of how that looks yeah there you go you can see that and then on the side kind of the same deal on the back that's where all of the businesses so we've got an on/off switch there's a V so that's that composite output of also got optical audio out and GMI including hdmi audio out two USB ports that's actually nice to see more than one USB port we've got ten hundred Ethernet and our power in on the bottom of the unit you can see its metals construction here so that should help with cooling a little bit although I'm guessing it runs pretty cool because there's not a whole lot of ventilation on it there's gaps here and here and then there's what appears to be sort of a passive intake right here four rubber feet keep it from slipping around once you put it on its table and I want you guys to stay tuned on not this channel but my NCIX comm channel because we're actually going to be taking a look this is the first Android network media player that I've seen so we're going to check out how that looks in a real world scenario so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Nick seus fusion XS don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos